The frequency of J. Brodsky use of biblical onomastics indicates
the personal religious drama of the poet. The main intensity of the latter came
in the beginning of 1980. The semantic space of antiquity appears as a competitor
of the semantics of Christianity. The peak of the antique onomastics appearance
in J. Brodsky\s work was exactly at the time of the significant drop of the
biblical onomastics in his work. We observe it in the (false) utterance «Изо рта,
сказавшего все, кроме “Боже мой”...».
Around that period, in the beginning of 1980, J. Brodsky renounces the use
of platonic writing names-concepts (Time, Human, Immortality, and so on).
However the use of the biblical onomastics never disappears completely,
it occurs as a constant lexical background during the whole poet\s life.
Within the context of J. Brodsky work, the frequency of the use of biblical
names is, in fact, directly related to the use of iambus. For the poet, iambus arises
as the metre that bears ideological and even «spiritual» meaning. A crucial
part\s drop of iambus in J. Brodsky poetry comes in the end of 1970 at the same
period of the significant drop of the biblical onomastics appearance.